Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:54 pm  

Sandra The Terrorist wrote:

Sounds a bit niche that, probably not for a family web site.

ooops, not a typo I'll live down easily!!!!

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:55 pm  

Standee is Chester doable in one day in your opinion?

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:59 pm  

Glasgow Gal wrote:

Standee is Chester doable in one day in your opinion?

depends when you go, we went in August and it was fairly rammed, as it was warm most of the animals were outside in their enclosures so we didn't get that involved with the queues to go inside the pens/buildings etc, I admit to spending an hour just sat watching the cheetah and her cubs, I think I took over 400 shots in that hour alone.

take an extra SD card and a spare battery

and whatever you do, don't believe the hype about Chester town centre, or the Green Bough hotel!!!

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:43 pm  

Standee wrote:

take an extra SD card and a spare battery

We've 36gb of CF cards and eight batteries mate, I don't call her 4 gig for nothing

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:44 am  

Big Graeme wrote:

We've 36gb of CF cards and eight batteries mate, I don't call her 4 gig for nothing

lol

I really do recommend Chester Zoo, given her apparent love of big cats, she'll love it.

Longleat was OK, but taking photo's though the window is frustrating (we never, ever, put the windows down when we thought we could get away with it, honest!)

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:26 pm  

Standee wrote:

And this is when I will concede that, on the day in Longleat I do wish, with all my heart, I had bought the D60 and not the 550, with the lens I hired the shutter speed just wasn't quite fast enought to catch the bird of prey show as well as I'd have liked.

The problem wasn't the camera but the lens mate, didn't you hire the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L? While a good all-rounder it just doesn't have the speed an f2.8 lens gives you.

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Sat Nov 26, 2011 4:00 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

The problem wasn't the camera but the lens mate, didn't you hire the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L? While a good all-rounder it just doesn't have the speed an f2.8 lens gives you.

is there a similar but faster lens, any ideas would be welcome fairly sharpish as I was about to order the same lens as a my christmas present?

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:01 pm  

Standee wrote:

is there a similar but faster lens, any ideas would be welcome fairly sharpish as I was about to order the same lens as a my christmas present?

As I've said, it is a great all round lens with a long reach only trouble is that the long end is f5.6 which for action photography just won't cut the mustard.

We've a 70-200mm f2.8 that while not having the range of the 100-400 holds the F2.8 through its range, add a 1.4x extender and we get f4 which just about does.

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:46 pm  

"Touch me, I bite!"

Re: Photography thread 11.02 : Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:48 pm  

So, I've been looking through peoples recommendations and have decided to go for a Canon EOS.

I'm currently debating between the 600D or the 550D. Anyone know the difference?